CNN host Ashleigh Banfield asked her guests, with respect to yesterday’s Hobby Lobby decision, if we are now in danger of religious discrimination to the degree that say a Muslim employer could prevent a woman from coming to work unless she brought a permission slip from her husband:
What if this were a Muslim family that owned a company and they were very strict in their religion — they did not believe a woman should be coming to work without permission slips from their husband.
Is this the kind of thing that they now could mount a case and take this all the way to the Supreme Court and, heaven’s to Betsy, there’s actually a precedent for a religious issue trumping civil rights laws?
Sally Kohn immediately responds “this is exactly the danger in this case…” and goes on to make the case that because corporations have ‘personhood’ in the eyes of the Supreme Court that any of this could happen.
Watch the clip: